Sorry, disagree. What happens to Assange is entirely of his own making! had he just stopped at exposing an alleged US war crime, he would be a hero in many eyes.

Instead, he is now just a dirty grub and criminal bail jumper/alleged rapist.

If he had manned up at the get go, he may have won a pardon after a short jail sentence. Instead, he spent years in self-imposed solitude in an embassy, trying to avoid justice.

That he is an Australian, shames us all!
Alan B.

It was another UK judge Arbuthnot who gave a free character assessment on Assange. I'd bet she was a goody two shoes at school. The UK Supreme Court blocked Rwanda deportation of illegal arrivals on the basis of predicted bad behaviour by that country. Too bad that the elected parliament decided on that plan, as opposed to unelected judges. I note the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks all the illegals should stay, perhaps it's a C of E thing.

Now the US has one of its citizens Gershkovich imprisoned in Russia on preposterous charges. I wonder what Pompeo thinks of that.

Governments work on behalf of the people?
If governments engage in immoral and egregious acts, are the people entitled to know?
I think they are.
Governments are not likely to tell us?
So we rely on persons like Mr Assange to inform us.
We are indebted to him.
He could have lived a quiet life.
Instead, he went in to bat for the people.
He deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.

Ipso Fatso is indeed correct.

There are always suckers who fall for the "well meaning" narcissist. Such a great guy is Mr Shipton:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/julian-assange-got-what-he-deserved/587008/

"I might further direct you to Assange’s own unique brand of journalism, when he could still be said to be practicing it. Releasing U.S. diplomatic communiqués that named foreigners living in conflict zones or authoritarian states and liaising with American officials was always going to require thorough vetting and redaction, lest those foreigners be put in harm’s way. Assange did not care—he wanted their names published, according to Luke Harding and David Leigh in WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy. As they recount the story, when Guardian journalists working with WikiLeaks to disseminate its tranche of U.S. secrets tried to explain to Assange why it was morally reprehensible to publish the names of Afghans working with American troops, Assange replied: “Well, they’re informants. So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.” (Assange denied the account; the names, in the end, were not published in The Guardian, although some were by WikiLeaks in its own dump of the files.)**"

As Alan pointed out, Jules is a grub who has cowered from the law, and when he could no longer hide he has used the money of his supporters (including China, where young women have been tried and executed with a bullet in the back of the head for having too many boyfriends) to play the fairest justice system in the world.

Fester: Hear, hear and well said Sir!
Alan B.